Yamaha FC5 Compact Sustain Pedal for Portable Keyboards

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Yamaha FC5 Compact Sustain Pedal for Portable Keyboards

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Pedal is extremely durable and reliable. Works well on slippery surfaces as well. Best of all, they're inexpensive.

This pedal is smaller, so easier to have a sustain for each keyboard in a multi keyboard setup without taking up all your floorspace. When used in addition to the triple pedal, this pedal allows me to turn on and off the dynamic microphone i have plug... Read More

It works flawlessly so far. Works well and it’s a yamaha. Does exactly as it's supposed to.

Great pedal. Packed and shipped with care. Two thumbs up.

Cons

The foot switch can't be fixed. There’s no physical polarity switch on the pedal. Without it the pedal's sustain could be reversed. The thought of squishing a mouse makes me cringe.

The fc5 is not compatible with casio wk-210. I have to turn the keyboard off/on before it corrects itself. I advise the seller to be more explicit in their statement about compatible devices.

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Quality

Made with good quality material and works pretty well on slippery surfaces as well.

A good and authentic yamaha sustain pedal.

Appears to be much better made than the original pedal that came with the keyboard and soon broke.

Otherwise it will screw your playing up on the real piano as this is much shorter, requires less stepping force to make work an... Read More

Price

It's a great buy for the money.

Packaging/appearance

I bought extras so i don't have to pack them when i take the keyboards out and i have an extra in the case as backup (although ... Read More

Overview

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pedal, great, piano, cheap and made.

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This product had a total of 4,952 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 17 2024.